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Author: Dan McCrackin

The Cold War was a time of long lasting strife and antagonism between the east and west. Some would argue that vestiges of that time still carry over into today and into modern politics. One thing that certainly remains as

The idea that foreign spies were always watching was a common theme that played out during the cold war, one that was revitalized after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 for several years. However, between the fall of the Berlin Wall

Campaign promises are some of the most obvious forms of propaganda, and they are rarely kept. They simply exist as fluff, an empty promise to try and keep people on the candidate’s side in order to be elected. However, in

Comic books are a potent source of propaganda in the media. The stories of Captain America, S.H.I.E.L.D, Black Widow, and many others have served to inundate those who read them with the idea of American superiority, or the inferiority of

In a time of heightened awareness of the extreme levels of firepower being positioned against one another, The Soviet Union and The United States raged on in what is today known as the cold war. Ironically this cold war was

During WWII the Nazi government had an extensive propaganda program across its nation, garnering support for the war and denouncing various unwanted elements within the population i.e Jews. This program was most heavily active under Hitler’s propaganda minister Goebbels’, who

The portrayals of women in propaganda are a source of contention, especially when those portrayals are done in various fashions across a spectrum of contentious nations. This is most prevalently seen in the portrayals of women in posters created by

Fear has always been and will always be one of the most powerful motivators for action by humans. In a previous analysis on this website, I analyzed a poster very similar to this one asking for people to do much

Russia would be forever changed by the October revolution and the social upheaval which followed it. The rise of the Soviet era and the eastern European collective that would become the Soviet block would at times prove to be both a

Demonization is not an uncommon concept in the crafting of images of war. It is hard to hate an enemy when you see them as human, as in those moments when one is funding the slaughter of our own species,

For many people the connotation that the word Propaganda carries is largely negative, mostly due to people associating the use of propaganda with Stalin’s Russia or Nazi Germany. Yet what about the use of propaganda here in the United States? Certainly